Sitting Bull | |
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Directed by | Sidney Salkow |
Written by | Screenplay: Jack DeWitt Sidney Salkow |
Produced by | W. R. Frank |
Starring | Dale Robertson Mary Murphy J. Carrol Naish John Litel Joel Fluellen Iron Eyes Cody John Hamilton Douglas Kennedy |
Cinematography | Víctor Herrera Charles J. Van Enger |
Edited by | Richard L. Van Enger |
Music by | Score: Raoul Kraushaar Song Great Spirit: Max Rich |
Production companies | W.R. Frank Productions Tele-Voz S.A |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 105 minutes |
Countries | United States Mexico |
Language | English |
Box office | $1.5 million[1] |
Sitting Bull is a 1954 American-Mexican Eastmancolor Western film directed by Sidney Salkow and René Cardona that was filmed in Mexico in CinemaScope. In a greatly fictionalised form, it depicts the war between Sitting Bull and the American forces, leading up to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and Custer's Last Stand. It was the first independent production to be filmed in the CinemaScope process.[2] Featuring sympathetic portrayals of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, The New York Times called it a "Crazy Horse opera".[3]